---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education for Student Inmates"
description: "Education for Student Inmates; Authorizing the Department of Corrections and each county, respectively, to contract with Florida College System institutions to provide education services for student inmates; authorizing the expenditure of state funds for the education of state inmates who have a specified amount of time remaining to serve on their sentences, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 722"
citation: "Florida SB 722 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-143"
primary_sponsors: ["Criminal Justice", "Perry"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-01"
last_action: "2022-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b25d19dd-63b9-4613-a76c-e272294118da"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/722/ByCategory"
source_hash: "06c799b4a41a8ac842eb10fd76f1bc3a84eaeae373b3c9ff375a45ab75b100c2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 722 (2022) — Education for Student Inmates

Education for Student Inmates; Authorizing the Department of Corrections and each county, respectively, to contract with Florida College System institutions to provide education services for student inmates; authorizing the expenditure of state funds for the education of state inmates who have a specified amount of time remaining to serve on their sentences, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-143.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 722 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/722/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 722 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/722/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 722 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/722/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-11-01** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-16** Referred to Criminal Justice; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-27** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/01/22, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-02-01** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-01** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-02** Now in Community Affairs
- **2022-02-02** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/08/22, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-08** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-09** Now in Rules
- **2022-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/15/22, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-15** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/23/22
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-23** In Messages
- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/HB 1515
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-25** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-01** Chapter No. 2022-143

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b25d19dd-63b9-4613-a76c-e272294118da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).